Nanoflare 800 Pro
Model NF-800PRO · Soh Wooi Yik, Liang Weikeng, Wang Chang, Chiharu Shida
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Nanoflare 800 Pro: a Denmark Open title for Soh Wooi Yik before it reached shops
A title before launch day
Yonex Japan announced a new Nanoflare 800 on October 16, 2023, in two models, the Pro and the Game, for sale in Japan from late November. Six days later, on October 22, Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik won the Denmark Open men’s doubles in Odense, beating an Indonesian pair 21–13, 21–17, and Yonex Japan’s report said Soh had just begun using the new 800 Pro and won with it at once; its equipment list for the final names the Nanoflare 800 Pro. The first 800 had a similar start in 2019, when Mayu Matsumoto defended her world title with it before it went on sale. The 800 Pro is the top tier of that second-generation 800: a new frame under its own item code, NF-800P, not the 2019 racquet.
Copper, a sharper throat and 22 × 22
Yonex Japan presented the new 800 as a further evolution of the “first-generation” Nanoflare 800 and its concept of sharp drives, low, straight, fast shots, now developed toward “aggressive drives.” To the Sonic Flare System shared across the Nanoflare series, high-modulus carbon at the frame top and bottom, it added copper foil in the lower frame (stiffer than carbon, Yonex says, yet soft for a metal), a wide-profile frame with thickened sides, and one more cross string for a 22 × 22 pattern whose narrower spacing raises string-bed pressure. Only the Pro gets the sharp-angled lower frame that Yonex says raises rigidity further. Yonex Japan’s launch table lists high-modulus carbon, M40X, Super HMG and copper in the frame, high-modulus carbon, Super HMG and Ultra PE Fiber in the shaft, and a new built-in T-joint. Yonex rates it stiff and head-light, 10 mm longer than standard.
Soh, Liang and Wang, and Shida
Yonex’s launch release named three players it expected to use the new 800: Ratchanok Intanon, Soh Wooi Yik and Chiharu Shida. Soh came first, in Denmark. On November 26, 2023, China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang won the China Masters men’s doubles in a 71-minute, three-game final against India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, and Yonex Japan’s report noted that the pair were holding the 800 Pro, “released just this November,” for their fourth title of the season; its equipment list names the Pro for both. Shida and Nami Matsuyama won the women’s doubles that day, though the report lists her racquet only as “Nanoflare 800.” Yonex Japan’s current product list names Liang, Wang and Shida as the 800 Pro’s players. Intanon’s use is documented only as the release’s plan.
Four tiers in Deep Green
The second-generation 800 is a ladder of four models in one matte Deep Green design with bright green accents. Yonex Japan sells two: the Pro, made in Japan and aimed at top players, and the Game (NF-800G), made in Taiwan and recommended for a wide range of players. Yonex’s global site and Yonex USA’s 2024 catalog add the Tour (NF-800T) and the Play (NF-800PL). In that catalog the Tour shares the Pro’s stiff flex, its 3U and 4U classes and Super HMG but uses Nanocell NEO instead of M40X and has no Ultra PE Fiber, while the Game and Play are medium flex and 4U only. The Pro comes in 4U (average 83 g, grip 5 or 6) and 3U (average 88 g, grip 4–6), and Yonex lists no other color or edition of it. The Game, Tour and Play each have their own page, as do the 2019 Nanoflare 800 and its 5U 800 LT.
The current stiff 800
The 800 Pro has been on sale since late November 2023 and is current: Yonex Japan’s product list and its 2024, 2025 and 2026 catalogs carry it beside the Game, and Yonex UK and Yonex USA sell it. Yonex Japan’s list price at launch was ¥30,800 including tax, ¥28,000 before tax. It took the original 800’s place in Japan: Yonex Japan’s racquet list of December 2023 showed the 800 Pro and 800 Game and no longer the 2019 racquet. It is a standard model in wide distribution, so new stock is the main supply. Its interest for a collector is as the frame of Soh’s and of Liang and Wang’s titles in its first weeks, and as the successor to the 800 that Matsumoto made famous. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Shared paint and a misprinted code
No counterfeit specific to the 800 Pro is documented. Yonex’s own guidance gives one general test, the hologram sticker, and warns that fakes are hard to tell from genuine racquets by sight. Identity is the commoner problem. Four tiers share the Deep Green finish and the 10 mm extra length, and Yonex’s own global page for the Play printed the item code NF-800P in its specification table, so a listing titled “NF-800P” can be a Play described from that page. The Game is the closest look-alike: the same paint, but 4U only and made in Taiwan. The 2019 Nanoflare 800 shares the number but not the finish; it is Matte Black, and a listing that mixes the two generations’ details needs checking. The callout lists the checks.
Between the 700 Pro and the 1000 Z
In Yonex’s current head-light Nanoflare range the 800 Pro is the stiff, drive-led model, between the medium-flex Nanoflare 700 Pro and the flagship Nanoflare 1000 Z, which Yonex rates extra stiff. Yonex Japan recommends the new 800 to attacking players who like head-light racquets and want a low, fast game built on sharp drives and pushes, and its release calls the Pro the model for top players; Yonex UK describes it for intermediate to advanced players. Its 3U option also sets it apart from the 700 Pro, which Yonex sells in 4U and 5U.
Yonex’s item code is NF-800P. Look for the matte Deep Green design with bright green accents, a frame 10 mm longer than standard and a 4U (average 83 g, grip 5 or 6) or 3U (average 88 g, grip 4–6) label. Yonex lists the Pro as made in Japan; the Game in the same design is made in Taiwan. Yonex lists stiff flex, high-modulus graphite, M40X, Super HMG and copper in the frame, high-modulus graphite, Super HMG and Ultra PE Fiber in the shaft, a new built-in T-joint and a 22 × 22 string pattern. A Deep Green 800 described without M40X is a Tour, Game or Play, and one offered only in 4U with medium flex is a Game or Play. Yonex’s own test is the hologram sticker, which resists peeling on a genuine racquet.
This is a current racquet, so most players will buy it new and choose the weight class and grip. Yonex recommends 20–28 lb in 4U and 21–29 lb in 3U. For a used frame, confirm the NF-800P code, the Japan marking and the weight label, and ask for daylight photographs of the frame and T-joint. Soh’s and Liang and Wang’s titles belong to the Pro; a Game, Tour or Play listing that leans on them describes a different racquet.